Let’s pretend for a second you are a pilot and can fly anywhere you want. Where would you fly, and why?

This is my son under the flight path at San Diego International Airport pretending he’s flying his World War II era P-38 Lightning over snow covered mountains we can just about see and feel through the lens of my GoPro! This shot was featured by GoPro as their photo of the day on September 2nd, 2019.

We attempted this shot a few times. At first, we went with clothing we thought could work from his closet, but I wasn’t feeling his jacket. Since he is really into old planes and wants to be a pilot when he grown up, my wife bought his this aviator jacket from Up and Away Jackets.

We waited for it to arrive before going out a second time, and I’m so glad this delay happened the way it did. Every once in a while when shooting sunsets I’ll have my camera set up, pointing out to sea, toward the sunset. Then I’ll scramble to try and find a new composition when nature plays a trick on us and all the beautiful color is in the opposite direction in the sky. I rarely end up with anything in this case because I spent all my efforts focusing the other direction. This time was different. I wanted the setting sun to be the fill light on my son so my camera was pointed away from the sunset. When Mother Nature attempted one of her fake-outs we were ready! Get your shot like this with a GoPro by visiting this link.